Improvement in clasps for garters



L. LOBENSTEIN. Clasps for Garters, 8L0.

Patented Feb. 18, 1879.

N.PE[ERS. PHOTQ-LITHOGHAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. c

UNI ED STATES. PATENT OFFIcn.

LEON LOBENSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT .lN CLASPS FOR GARTERS, 800

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 212,390, dated February 18, 1879; application filed December 23, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LEON LOBENSTEIN, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Olasps for Garters, 850., of which the following is a specification:

This clasp is adapted to hold a webbing when laid between the two parts of the clasp, so that the garter, waist-belt, supporter, or similar band is easily varied in length, and held at any point to which it may be drawn u In the drawings,Figure 1 is a section of the clasp as open. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same closed, and Fig. 3 represents the metal plate forming the body of the clasp.

The plate a, forming the body of the clasp, is provided with the slots 1) b at the sides, through which the webbing t is threaded, and then brought back upon itself, as seen in Figs. 4 and 5, so as to retain the plate firmly upon one end of the elastic or non-elastic webbing It. At one end of the plate a is a mortise at c and a bridge-piece, i, that is bent up at right angles to the plate, and then the ends of such bridge are bent forward to form pivot-eyes 0 for the pivots at the back corners of the swinging clasping-plate. f. This plate f has a projecting tail-piece, g, that rests upon the spring k, that is behind the plate a, and this spring, pressing upon the tail-piece g, holds the clasping-plate either closed, as shown in Fig. 2, or open, as shown in Fig. 1. There are spring guide-prongs I at the outer end of the plate f, and they pass into notches 1' at the edge of the plate a, and serve to sustain the plate f against lateral strain.

The moving end of the webbing or elastic t is laid upon the plate a, and the claspingplate f is closed down upon the same to grasp it and retain the same when under the tension usual with garters, belts, and like articles.

To prevent the webbing slipping, I employ the penetrating-points n 0; upon the inside of the plate f. These are preferably made of the sheet metal of the plate f; but sometimes I introduce a stud, '12, upon the plate a, as seen in Fig. 4, and provide holes in the elastic or webbing to be passed over such stud to take the strain, the clasp-plate f holding the webbing in place.

The plate a may have openings opposite to the points 11, so as to prevent them becoming blunted by contact with the plate.

I claim as my invention- 1. The plate a, provided with the slots 1) at the sides for the reception of the webbing or elastic, in combination with the clasping-plate f, pivoted at 0, and the spring. h, that acts upon the tail of the clasping-plate to keep the LEON LOBENSTEIN.

Witnesses Gno. T. PINOKNEY, CHAS. H. SMITH. 

